Last night, at a meeting of concerned citizens eager to get politically engaged to stand up for our values, our concerns and the America we believe in, sheets of agitprop parody lyrics were passed around to close the meeting with a lighthearted yet pointed singalong. Provided by Jessica Agullo and John Collins, who run the website NastyWomanStuff, these lyrics (in addition to the nursery rhyme above) very cleverly repurpose songs from the musicals “Cabaret” and “The Producers” that in their original form already made rather pointed comments about the politics of 1930’s Germany, an era whose echoes are reverberating rather too loudly again.

I’ll include recordings of the original as hum-along references for the parody lyrics: